Controversial halluclinogen Salvia study shows intense, novel effects in humans
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
In what is believed to be the first controlled human study of the effects of salvinorin A, the active ingredient in Salvia divinorum, a controversial new hallucinogen featured widely on You Tube and other internet sites, Johns Hopkins researchers report that the effects are surprisingly strong, brief, and intensely disorienting, but without apparent short-term adverse effects in healthy people.